Welcome to hirosanblog! by Ryo Hirosawa, the first Japanese man who learned human echolocation from Juan Ruiz, Brin Bushway and Daniel Kish. photogenic instinct that hasn't die after losing his eyesight completely, he continues to see the world through the lens by sound.
廣澤亮トイウゼンモウデス。デ本人で初めて、米国で人間のエコー（ロケーション反響定位）の技術を学びました。
全盲になっても写真が趣味。盲人写真家(のつもりで)写真を多くちりばめながラ、シカクショウガイシャノシテンカラ、ブログヲシッピツシテイキマス。

Friday, October 7, 2011

Walk-As-Fast-As-I-Can Experience at Scherer Park - とにかく早く歩く訓練

Daniel took me to Scherer park, which was unknown name of park to me until Daniel told me the name of the park.From Daniel's neighbour to this park, I bang my head with a light pole. When going to the park with Juan, he scans objects that may across me, but Daniel has left everything on my responsibility... I ended up finding it by myself. I learn everything in the hardest possible way!

When we arrived at Scherer park, Daniel gave me a big surprise...

Don't worry about any obstacles or prople walking by, walk as fast as you can. I will stop you if necessary. Trust me.

Daniel said he will scan for any objects or passer-bys, and make me walk fast?I thought my dream comes true, as I always dreamt since I lost my vision that I want to walk like a mad man, worry nothing about what comes ahead!

Then, I started walking... fast! At the same time, Daniel started clicking his tongue madly, scanning anything is ahead of me!I hope Steve the cameraman has shot the footage from the scene!

This is the first and only experience for me to walk without worrying about anything, but I also realised that I suppose to be able to walk this fast if I use echolocation effectively!

I believe Daniel wanted to show me how much I am capable if I acquire his echolocation skills and make a good use of it!

About Me

Ryo Hirosawa is an advantitiously blind man since 2009, after suffering from glaucoma caused by Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Though I was given 1 year to live, I've lived over decades.
While this society in Japan tried to exclude me, I decided to fly to America to learn human echolocation to reclaim independence, freedom and responsibility. Now I have a skill to "see the world by sound" and still in the process of "recovery and discovery."
Photography is the part of my whole life, and the instinct never dies after becoming completely blind with absolutely no sense of light. Now I'm "seeing through the lens with sound" and continue shooting phothave a look at my photos on flickr or instagram under username "blindhirosan"
cheers and thanks for checking my profile!
ひろサワ亮と言います。特発性拡張型心筋症に起因する緑内障から、全盲になりました。引きこもりの毎日の中で、社会から疎遠になっていく自分を変えたいと思い、アメリカで人間のエコーロケーション（反響定位）を、ホワン・ルイズ、ダニエル・キッシュとブライアン・ブッシュウェイから学びました。絵エコロケーションの訓練の日々は、音による新しい発見の毎日でした。
失明以前から写真を撮るのが好きで、視覚障害者になって、写真を撮るのを諦めかけましたが、現在はエコーロケションを駆使して、全盲写真家のつもりで写真を撮っています。ほとんどの写真は、ウリッカーもしくはInstagram(blindhirosan)で公開していますので、どうぞご覧ください。